"Fears are rising
about the possible breakdown of a deal between the European Union
and Turkey for the return of migrants after legal committees
in Greece upheld dozens of appeals by refugees against their
deportation.

By late Monday, Greek
appeals committees had ruled in favor of 35 refugees, ruling
that Turkey is an unsafe country. Only two rulings
overturned appeals by refugees against their deportation....

Hundreds of applications
are pending and there are fears that they too will result in
rulings in favor of refugees, undercutting a deal signed between
Ankara and Brussels in March to return migrants to Turkey.

Meanwhile there are
also concerns about a pickup in arrivals from neighboring Turkey."

"The decision to
place all the arrivals in a closed detention centre which followed
on from the EU/Turkey pact led some activists and NGOs to withdraw
from direct work in the Samos hotspot (aka the Camp). Given the
dubious legality of the pact and the intention to return the
majority of the arrivals back to Turkey which has been deemed
a safe place for refugees, it was considered that any interventions
with refugees in the Camp would signify compliance with this
latest inappropriate and inhumane response to the refugees. As
one MSF worker observed at the time, how can I help and
welcome the arrivals on the beach when I know that they are going
to be locked in the camp and then possibly deported to Turkey?
I cant do that....

the numbers now coming
to the frontier islands such as Samos, Lesvos and Chios are slowly
increasing. 55 refugees arrived on 7th June and a further 60
three days earlier."

The EU is trying to
halt migration by bribing the world into compliance.

"In an effort to
halt the unstoppable, EU is trying to broker deals based on the
failed EU/Turkey deal with Lebanon, Tunisia, Nigeria, Senegal,
Mali, Niger, Ethiopia, and Libya , and as Guardian reports they
are also mulling over whether or not to make the same deal with
Sudan, the president of which is wanted for war crimes. To top
it all off, the EU is looking for a partner in Eritrea, a country
whose government is accused of crimes against humanity by the
UN. Commissioner Avramopoulos says that the EU plans to secure
up to 62bn of funding to convince these states to hold
back the migration. EC has reportedly threatened uncooperative
partners in the migration crisis with positive and
negative incentives if they do not work sufficiently with
the EU in combating the flow of migrants trying to reach Europe.
Countries that do not let migrants cross their country and/or
accept to take migrants back will be rewarded."

Refugees arriving in
Crete are reportedly being stripped of their right to seek asylum.

According to reports
which we have received, there are around 113 refugees from Syria,
Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (including
families and children) who wanted to go to Italy from Turkey
but have been caught in a Greece Island (Crete) from last several
days.According to the information received from the island, they
are being kept in bad condition where there is no medical
facilities and no good food...".

No new relocations for
unaccompanied minors in almost two months.

"As for the relocation
of the most vulnerableNews That Moves reports that not
one unaccompanied minor has been relocated since April 12. There
are unaccompanied minors from Syria, Iraq, Eritrea, Burundi,
Central African Republic, Costa Rica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
Bahrain, Maldives, and British overseas countries and territories.
Note that the so-called eligible nationalities for relocation
are changing every three months, but currently these are the
ones that are. The EU Commission stated that the process of relocation
of unaccompanied minors has to be more efficient, but as it seems
no real solution is in sight. According to UNHCR and Amnesty
International observations, due to the time consuming procedures
for the appointment of legal guardians in Greece and Italy, and
due to the lack of effective information about their rights,
unaccompanied children are often not effectively given priority
for relocation."

"Cuddly language
cannot hide preferred EU method of dealing with migration: gratify
those who cause it in the first place...

There is nothing especially
seismic about the latest version of the EUs migration policy,
which was unveiled on Tuesday afternoon. The central premise
is the same one that Europe has long employed: asking the developing
world to deal with migration, so it doesnt have to.

In a carrot-and-stick
approach, Europe is offering aid, trade and expertise to countries
bearing the brunt of migration flows in the Middle East and north
Africa. Those that fail to comply will not get the aid or the
trade. There are consequences, one EU memo ominously
reads, for those that refuse.

Those taking the carrot
will be expected to make life a bit better for the millions of
migrants within their borders. Above all, they are tasked with
readmitting the few who manage to escape  and to stopping
the rest from leaving in the first place. It is the EU-Turkey
deal, but repeated across the southern Mediterranean and the
Sahara."

Greece: USEFUL LINK: Lawyers
Available In European Countries (News That Moves, link): "The European
Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) has published a list of
lawyers and experts from several countries in Europe who work
on asylum and immigration law. The list contains contact phone
numbers for lawyers and organisations offering legal aid to refugees."

"That is also the
case where that national, who is merely in transit on the territory
of the Member State concerned, is intercepted when leaving the
Schengen area and is the subject of a procedure for readmission
into the Member State from which he or she has come"

"European court
of justice says France acted wrongly after Ghanian woman was
found with false passport at Channel tunnel...

France was wrong to
imprison a Ghanian woman who was arrested at the Channel tunnel
during an attempt to enter Britain illegally using a false passport,
the EUs most senior court has ruled.

The European court of
justice said on Tuesday that the EU directive on returning irregular
migrants prevents any member state imposing a prison sentence
on a non-EU migrant who is in the country illegally, and whom
they have not attempted to return."

"Arms exports to
Saudi Arabia, the return of refugees to Afghanistan and the deal
with Turkey: Germanys peace institutes have come out firing
against many of Germanys more controversial policies....

The five leading peace
institutes in Germany have made wide-ranging criticisms of Berlins
foreign and security policies.

In a new report, the
organisations criticised Germanys cooperation with Saudi
Arabia and Qatar in particular, because of their links to the
funding of terrorism and the propagation of fundamentalism...

The fact that
Germany arms countries like Saudi Arabia is scandalous,
said Margret Johannsen from Hamburg Universitys Institute
for Peace Research and Security Policy."

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